Jail time for Sydney trio over Iraqi bribe

Three Sydney men, including the father of notorious ISIS recruit Mohamed Elomar, have been jailed over a $1 million bribe to an Iraqi public official.

Justice Christine Adamson jailed the late terrorist's father Mamdouh Elomar, 63, his brother Ibrahim Elimar, 61, and businessman John Jousif, 48, for four years with a non-parole period of two years in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday.

She also fined each brother $250,000, finding they knew it was both morally wrong and illegal to bribe an official, whether foreign or otherwise.

The Sydney trio pleaded guilty to conspiring with each other and with an Iraqi resident between July 2014 and February 2015 to pay a bribe to a foreign public official in a bid to gain lucrative contract work.

In early September 2014, more than $1 million in cash was provided to Jousif who transferred it to Iraq through a money exchange business in Auburn.

The Australian government had a ban on transferring funds to Iraq but Jousif was the person at the money exchange business carrying a nylon sack containing over $1 million.